Interesting Space Facts

Here is a list of all the interesting facts about the space,universe, solar system, planets, the moon which you didn’t know. These facts will amaze you, and you will find that there are a lot of fun and interesting facts about space and all celestial bodies which you didn’t know until now !

Interesting Space Facts List :

41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time!

In space, astronauts can’t cry properly because of the zero gravity!

Mars appears red because it’s covered in rust!

The longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes!

Our solar system was formed more than 4 billion years ago!

The sun looks 1600 times fainter from the pluto than it does from the earth!

Saturn’s rings are made up of particles of ice, dust and rock. Some particles are as small as grains of sand while others are much larger than skyscrapers!

Some large asteroids even have their own moon!

Halley’s Comet appears about every 76 years!

One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was the size of a pea!

The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies!

The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years!

It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for the light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth!

Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions!

Even traveling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda!